May 06, 2021, 15:21 IST
In the second wave of coronavirus infections in India, more children are being infected.
According to physicians, a majority of kids have mild symptoms
The age group zero to 20 years accounted for nearly 11.5 percent of the 56 lakh Covid-19 cases recorded in India between January 1 and April 21.
The Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children in Mumbai saw 150 cases of Covid-19 in the seven months from the start of the pandemic in India in February 2020 to August 2020, an average of 21 cases per month. According to the hospital s CEO Minnie Bodhanwala, the hospital has seen 90 cases in just two months this year.
SRCC Children’s Hospital diagnoses around 15-20 children with Covid-19 every day, these days. In the last wave in 2020, “children were hardly contracting the disease; the caseload was 10%-15% of what it is today”, she told
IndiaSpend. The youngest patient she has treated was four months old.
Nearly 11.5% of the 56 lakh Covid-19 cases reported between January 1 and
April 21 were in the age group zero to 20 years, government data show. This is just under the 12% of cases in this age group in all of 2020, but doctors say they are treating more children and adolescents with Covid-19 in this second wave because of the sheer number of cases in a shorter span of time.
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Mohammed Khizr from Hyderabad was suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency
Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children in Mumbai has successfully performed a life-saving bone marrow transplant surgery on a 13-month-old boy from Hyderabad with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
Mohammed Khizr was born to Raziya Sayed (29) and Karrar Ali (33) on December 24, 2019. Their happiness was short-lived as Mohammed would get fever and cough every alternate day. After giving medications prescribed by a paediatrician, his fever and cough would subside for a few days. Several tests conducted in a local hospital failed to provide a correct diagnosis.
The patient was referred to Wadia hospital where he was diagnosed with SCID in September 2020, Dr. Prashant Hiwarkar, a bone marrow transplant physician, said.